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In Terrence Malick’s films — he has made six so far, three in this century — it is usually possible to discern, beneath the blossoms of metaphor and the philosophical foliage, the trellis of a more or less conventional plot. “The Thin Red Line” is a combat picture. “The Tree of Life” is a nostalgic coming-of-age story. And “To the Wonder,” Mr. Malick’s latest, is a romantic melodrama whose major characters fall tragically and beautifully in and out of love. — A. O. Scott